Grok Bot: 5 Must-Try Use Cases for Work and Life (Full Tutorial)

0:00Hey everyone. I think Grok Bot is the future of personal agents and I'm going to show you how to build five of my favorite bots in this video. We're going to build an advisor to create and manage your other bots, a YouTube researcher to find outlier videos in your interest, an X Scout to surface the most insightful and funny tweets from your timeline, a digital Marie Kondo to clean up your email and find paid subscriptions to cancel, a personal concierge to help you get good prices on travel and vacations, and as a bonus, we're going to build a gamer to see if Grok Bot can play

0:39classic games like Doom and Red Alert. We'll finish with a discussion about privacy and whether Grok Bot should be your new AI daily driver. All right, but first, let me show you what makes Grok Bot different. A few weeks ago, I tweeted that ChatGPT was one feature away from building the AI product I want, which is a dedicated personal computer in the cloud for running AI agents. Lee from the Cursor team DM'd me shortly after to test Grok

1:10Bot. What exactly is a dedicated cloud computer? You know the meme of people walking around with their laptop half open to keep their agents running? You don't have to do that anymore if you're using Grok Bot. Basically, Grok Bot lives in a computer sitting somewhere in SpaceX AI servers instead of in your home. It has its own browser and operating system that you can use

1:35and log in to your favorite apps. Now, let's do a quick comparison of Hermes, ChatGPT, and Grok Bot. Hermes I run on my Mac Mini at home. It's on 24/7 and it gives it a persistent computer, but you have to go buy the machine and set everything up for yourself. You can technically also run Hermes on a virtual private server, but that again

2:00requires more setup work. Now, ChatGPT Work uses plugins and a cloud browser, but the problem is that browser as it right now cannot stay signed in to your favorite apps. The UX for ChatGPT Work also feels scattered across chat, work, and Codex. Let's take a quick look here. It's just kind of like a mess of chat

2:23threads here. There's ChatGPT, Codex. There's like another tab up here for work and chat. And it's just all really confusing even to someone like me. In contrast, Grok Bot gives you a persistent cloud computer right off the box. And I think it's the easiest of the three to set up and get going. And its interface, as you can see here, also feel a lot more focused and

2:45delightful. I love the little bots and the animations that they make when they start working. Right, let's say look up the weather. And you can see here that there's some pretty cool subtle animations. Each bot has a different personality and style. And this is the work of Cursor's great design team, including Jenny Wen and other folks on her team that I've

3:08interviewed in the past. Overall, I think this UX feels more like talking to a coworker than getting lost in a hundred chat threads. So, can Grok Bot actually replace ChatGPT and Codex, which is my current daily driver? Let's run through some of my favorite bots right now. So, the first bot that you should create after you install Grok Bot is an

3:31advisor. Here I have my advisor pinned to the very top of my Grok Bot list. With your advisor, you want to start by telling it about your work and life. And then actually ask it to give you some ideas for bots to create. Here's what I told my advisor. I'm a creator and founder of Behind the Craft. I have two daughters and I live in the Bay Area. I publish newsletter posts and YouTube videos focus on practical AI tutorials and podcast interviews, and I

3:58also have membership portal over here. So, based on all this, suggest five bots that can help me save me time or money. And for each, explain what it would do in a few sentences. As you can see here, it created five bot ideas. A daily AI news scout, YouTube comment miner, membership concierge, social media poster, and podcast

4:20preparer. Right? Now, what many people don't realize is that you can actually get one bot, in this case our advisor bot, to help us create the rest of our bots. Here, I asked my advisor to build a single bot that both researches other channels and mines comments. And let's call it YouTube researcher. Right? So, now let's go ahead and check out the

4:44YouTube researcher use case. You can see that the advisor kicked off the YouTube researcher bot with this instruction to create a warning brief to send me YouTube intel every morning. But, I want to give it more specific instructions, right? First, I asked it to monitor specific channels in my niche. And let's go down here, and it's starting to monitor channels, and here

5:07is its first attempt at a brief. You can see here that the brief is like just like very verbose and hard to follow. There's like a lot of stuff here. It did end up pulling my YouTube comments and finding themes there, so that's great. But, this is just like too much to process, right? So, I gave it some more instructions. I told it to give me a report in the specific format, which is first, list your top three content ideas, then give me the top five outliers for other channels, and then give me the top performing overall. Limit your research to the last 14 days because YouTube with AI stuff is

5:41very topical. And also add the top comment themes back to the report. And by the way, this is how we should be working with AI to refine its output instead of trying to one shot something. Now you see here that the report is much more concise and easier to follow. Let's take a quick look. Top three content ideas, it wants me to make a video on my

6:03Spec Scale that I plan to do soon. It tells me to make a video on Grok Bot that we're making right now. And here are the top outliers from the other channels. Outlier meaning that it beat that channel's performance for the last 14 days. Yeah, pretty interesting topics here that we can follow up on.

6:21And top performing overall. And also the top common themes. And it did more here and then I told it to send the full report again just to make sure it looks good. And now what I can do is basically there's a daily job that sends me this report every morning, right? Just this morning for example, it sent me a new report with the top angles, the watch list, and

6:42comments. And I basically have a YouTube researcher that proactively finds interesting topics for me to make videos on and gives me feedback based on my users' comments. Okay? So this is the process that we're going to follow for pretty much the rest of the bots that we're going to make, which is we're going to kick it off with an initial prompt. We're going to iterate back and forth with it to make its output good. And then we're going to schedule a routine or job that runs daily, weekly, or monthly to have it

7:09proactively do work for us. Now, let's actually see how we can follow the same process with our X Scout Bot. So Grok Bot is part of SpaceX AI, right? So it should have first-party access to X and Twitter data. And even though I have an unhealthy addiction to X, I still miss plenty of great content or bookmark tweets that I

7:34never look at again. Here's the prompt that I gave my X Bot. Find the most viral X posts from the last 7 days in my niche and create a weekly report with the top 10 tweets from people I follow, engage with, or bookmark grouped into a few categories. Include a full tweet copy, link, and your analysis. And end with three content ideas for me to tweet about

7:56next. You can see here that it found my X account and it automatically created a routine to do this every morning. And here is the initial output, right? So, it found themes around playbooks that people save, not just like, from Greg, 23 ways I use AI agents to grow my startup. Chinese developer from Loop to graph

8:18engineering. And more tweets from Greg. Another theme that it found is just about Grokbot, Codex, and ChatGPT work compared and actually used, right? Tweet from Riley and from Ben, who works on the Christian team, on the most loved internal Grokbot use cases. And more. And the third theme is around creator workflows that I actually am interested in And it ended this report with the three

8:44things to tweet about next. Some ideas here. And just for fun, I asked it to also give me the top five funniest tweets from my timeline. As they get through it, and the number one funniest tweet is, as usual, OpenAI and Anthropic kind of sniping at each other and kind of joking. Right? And then there's some more funny

9:04tweets down here. All kind of in my AI niche. You can see here that it set up a routine automatically and it sent me a new report this morning. Now, let's actually tell it to do something else. I'm going to turn on voice here. Can you send me this report to peter@behindthecraft.com? And also, make sure you include a full tweet copy in your report. Send to my

9:28email right now. Right? So, let's see if it actually is able to send this report over email cuz I don't want to have to open Grokbot each time to see it. I want to just in my inbox every morning. Awesome. Here's a report from GrokBot. You can see here that it has these themes. It's included a full tweet copy.

9:47I can scroll down here. And yeah, I I think this looks pretty good, right? And then it has down here, I'm sure, the top three things to tweet about next. Again, the process here is to give GrokBot initial prompt, have it pull up the information, iterate with it to get the output in the report, right? And then either tell it to send you a daily job through GrokBot itself or through your email. In this case, I prefer email cuz I like to wake up with the top tweets to consume directly in my inbox instead of having to open a

10:18separate app. And by the way, it's able to send me email because I connected to a bunch of plugins, including the Gmail plugin. Now, let's move on to a fun bot that I call Marie Kondo that cleans up your digital clutter. There are three places where clutter piles up, right? Your email, Google Drive, and your paid

10:41subscriptions. Now, I've connected both Gmail and Drive in plugins to GrokBot. And then I gave it this prompt. Audit my Gmail, Google Drive, any current email receipts, and create a cleanup plan. Find newsletters I rarely open. Find large or abandoned Drive files. Try to identify paid subscriptions from email receipts. And also, you can hook up Mercury MCP to get this data. Mercury

11:07is a bank that I use for my business. And then group everything into these different categories, use a number list. And crucially, I told it to not move, delete, or unsubscribe, or cancel anything without my approval, right? The last line is really important for a bot that cleans up your files. You always want to review what it plans to delete

11:29before letting it remove anything. And you can see here that first Grokbot confirmed that it's connected to Google Drive and Gmail. And then it actually connected to Mercury MCP after signing on the remote cloud computer to make this work. And then it gave me this initial report. This is a massive list of stuff to clean up in my email, subscriptions to review, and other things that I should not touch, right? Honestly, this list is like pretty overwhelming. It's

11:59incredibly long. And I gave it some feedback of like, "Hey, list it properly, categorize it properly." It's still an incredibly long list, right? Again, this stuff is not going to get it right in one shot. And eventually, I told it to just show me max 10 items in each list and get rid of all the random labels that it has. Now, this is much more digestible. It has a bunch of emails here,

12:21Google Drive, and paid subscriptions. And I gave it one final piece of feedback to only show me emails to unsubscribe to, Google Drive files to delete, and paid subscriptions that I want to cancel. And then here's the updated list that it came up with. Now, it has this list as a numbered list. And my feedback is to actually get it to take action, which is email unsubscribe to three and four, five, six, seven, eight. Google Drive, delete the actual tax return, delete some of these large files, and paid subscriptions, cancel 11 and 15, right? And just as a general tip, it's always good to ask Grokbot or

12:59AI to give you its response in a numbered list like this to make it super easy for you to just like tell it to do things by just referring to the number in the list instead of having to type everything over again. I use this pattern all the time. All right, so now Grokbot is actually taking action,

13:15right? This is where the magic happens. You can see here it's already unsubscribed to a bunch of senders. It's trashed three Google Drive files that we asked it to. And now it's canceling Lovable and Equip Foods, which is a protein company. So now to cancel Lovable, I first have to sign to the cloud computer with my Lovable credentials, which I did

13:36manually. And we found out that actually Lovable is already scheduled to be canceled. So Lovable is done. Then it asked me to sign in to Equip Foods and I did that. And then it canceled uh the protein subscription for me. By the way, Equip Foods is a great protein company. I'm only canceling because I have too many

13:52protein powders at home already. Uh so it basically did all this work, right? It's trashed a bunch of stuff. It's unsubscribed to a bunch of emails and it's canceled a bunch of subscriptions to save me money. And you can see that it did all this in around 5 minutes when it would have taken me probably 30 minutes to an hour

14:10to do all this manually. Marie Kondo is very, very useful. Of course, I think there's something missing with this bot. I think we should ask it to Can you talk like Marie Kondo from now on? Give me an example. Because right now it sounds too much like a robot and not so much like Marie Kondo. And let's see what it comes up

14:30with. All right. So now Marie Kondo is actually going to talk like Marie Kondo. As you can see, Hermes and the thing have completed work. We thank them and place them in the trash where they may rest. Equip Foods no longer sparks joy and release Prime Protein subscription with gratitude. [laughter] Yeah, so now we can set up Marie Kondo to maybe talk to us every week or every month to clean up our digital files and spark joy, right? So this is definitely

14:57a bot that I recommend you setting up. Just remember to ask it to give its output in a number list instead of just doing the cleanup for you so that you can review it first, right? You don't want it to actually delete some important file. Now let's cover the personal concierge bot. This is a bot that I want to use for all my vacation and travel plans. It has access to my vacation document where

15:20I've listed in December trip to Japan. Here's a quick preview of document. It has the full itinerary for Japan that I created with AI as well. Let's go back to Grokbot. And what I want Grokbot to do is I haven't quite booked my flights to Japan yet. So, I want it to monitor for price changes and alert me on what routes are the best

15:41deal. Here's a prompt that I gave it. Read my vacation document and monitor the exact flight legs for my family trip. Get the dates, the best options for each flight leg, check regularly, and let me know when the price improves. You see here that it found my flight legs and it's using Google Flights to check the prices. Now, you may be wondering what's the advantage of using Grokbot for this instead of just setting up

16:05Google Flight price alerts? And the value here is that Grokbot can understand my whole trip based on my document and decide what's a better option for my family. If you scroll down here, the big finding is that a Tokyo round trip is about $2,700 cheaper than the open-jaw flights that my dog prefers, right? My dog prefers it to fly from SFO to Tokyo and then from Tokyo to Fukuoka, which we're going to, and then from Fukuoka back to SFO. But actually, Grokbot found a better itinerary that's about $2,700 cheaper to just fly round trip to Tokyo instead of doing this itinerary that I laid out. Right? But a

16:45simple Google price alert would not have found this. And now I asked it to check every Monday at 9:00 a.m. to see the price improves. And you can see here that the price is still around the same. The Tokyo round trip is still much cheaper. Eventually, I can ask Grokbot to also just go ahead and book the flight for me or check into

17:03the flight when the time comes. And generally speaking, I think it's always a good idea to have a travel thread or a travel bot to both help you plan travel ahead of time and also when you're at the location to help you book amusement parks, to help you figure out what to do every single day. So, I imagine I'm going to be using this

17:23personal travel concierge a lot. All right, let's test one more use case with Grokbot. Because Grokbot gives me a dedicated cloud computer, I thought it would be fun to ask it to install and let me play some retro games. I asked it to install Red Alert, Doom, and Commander Keen. And you can see here that it found the files and installed it. So, why don't we just ask it now? Let's say, open Doom

17:49for us to play. And let's see how things work out. All right, looks like Doom is up. Let's open it in our virtual cloud computer. And here it is. And here we can start a new game. Let's pick this episode. And yeah, let's say hurt me plenty plenty. Here's Doom. And here's kind of where

18:10Grokbot falls apart a little bit. Unfortunately, because it's on a virtual cloud computer, the mouse isn't quite configured right to actually play Doom. For some reason, it's looking at the floor all the time, and I can't seem to adjust the mouse to actually look up. All right, so Doom doesn't quite work here right now. Now, let's actually try playing some other game. Let's try asking to play Commander Keen. I'm not sure if you guys know this, but Commander Keen is an awesome

18:36platform game that I played in my youth. And now it's loading Commander Keen, so let's see what it comes up with. Awesome, this is Commander Keen. Let's see if it plays well or not. Let's start a new game. One player, normal difficulty. And here we go. Here we go. It's a very basic platformer, but I remember really

18:57enjoying it in my youth. How do I jump? I forgot how to jump. Also, control is jump. And yeah, it plays better than Doom for sure, but there is some lag in the keyboard and mouse that makes it difficult to actually control the character. Okay? So, um um yeah, that's just for fun. But basically, Grokbot is not replacing

19:19your gaming PC or GeForce Now yet. But the fact that the agent can install and launch these games on its own computer gives you a sense of how open-ended this could become and how much potential there is here, right? So, maybe SpaceX AI can use all the data centers and GPUs in space to actually deliver triple-A games through just virtual cloud computer. That would be a

19:43dream. Right? And while we're at it, I opened this file manager here, and here's all the stuff that we installed into our virtual cloud computer. It kind of looks like Windows 3.1 a little bit. I'm not sure what kind of thing it is. There's Japan flights. There's other stuff here. Right? And then there's games that we've installed. And also we have Chrome and a terminal. That's kind of our virtual

20:06cloud computer. All right. Now,

20:19All right. Now, before we wrap, I want to talk about probably the biggest hurdle for Grokbot adoption, which is trust. When I see a Google sign-in screen like this on my laptop, I don't really think twice before signing in. But because this appeared on the virtual cloud computer, I hesitated a bit because how do I know that nobody else is seeing the screen on the virtual

20:39cloud computer? Now, if you go to the Grokbot website, if you scroll all the way down here, there's a note about privacy here, which is "How does Grokbot handle my privacy?" Grokbot uses the same cursor SSO auth and privacy mode you already trust. Your cloud computer is encrypted in transit and at rest, and there's no AI training

20:57on top of it, right? So, you know, I'm willing to give Grokbot and the virtual cloud computer access to all the stuff because I'm an early AI adopter. but I can see normal people struggling to understand what this cloud computer thing even is and kind of hesitate to sign into their favorite apps on this device. So, I think the AI agent platform that figures out trust will be the first to

21:24get mass adoption. But overall, I think Grok Bot is a clear sign of the future. We're moving away from manually using our keyboard and mouse to do work on our laptops to using our voice to orchestrate a bunch of agents that live in a dedicated cloud computer. And Grok Bot is the first product to

21:46actually enable this. Now, it's not quite my daily driver yet because I think ChatGPT still offers more for $20 a month, while Grok Bot requires paying $200 a month to use on a regular basis. But I think Grok Bot has much cleaner UI than ChatGPT right now and is also very, very capable. And overall, it's just great to be in a world where Cursor and SpaceX AI are just as viable a competitor as OpenAI and Anthropic. I think Cursor may even have the edge if it can continue to support multiple models from all

22:21providers. So, Grok Bot is available for free and I definitely recommend downloading and trying it to see a glimpse of the future. I'll include some of the prompts from this video in the pinned comment below and I also have an exclusive interview with the Cursor team on how they built Grok Bot coming up in the next few

22:41weeks. Overall, I'm really impressed by Grok Bot. I think the team really cooked here and I can't wait to hear the story behind how they built this. So, please like and subscribe if you enjoyed this video and I'll see you next time.